Six long pieces on how this work actually gets done — technique, regulation, business and workflow. Written for photographers and for the clubs who hire them.
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Scratched acrylic, mixed lighting, and a puck moving faster than your reaction time. Everything I have learned about photographing ice hockey in British rinks — from where to stand to what to leave in the bag.
Grassroots football is shot in the worst light of any sport, from the worst angles, with no second chances. Here is how I approach a non-league fixture from the moment I park the car.
Tennis looks like an easy sport to photograph — two players, a defined court, predictable movement. It is not. The margins are in the geometry and in a shutter window about a fifth of a second long.
Aerial work is the fastest way to make a venue look extraordinary — and the fastest way to get a club into trouble if you fly without doing the homework. Here is the whole process, from registration to the shot list.
Nobody hires a sports photographer with no sports photographs, which is an obvious problem when you are starting. Here is the route I actually took, and what I would do differently.
A football photograph is worth ten times more on Sunday morning than on Wednesday afternoon. This is the exact process I use to get from a full memory card to a delivered gallery overnight.
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These pieces come out of questions people actually ask me on the touchline. If there is something you would like written up properly, say so and it may well become the next one.
Fixtures, tournaments, team portraits or aerial work — tell me the date and the venue and I will come back with a plan and a price.
